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Why Change Your Wife?

192090 minUnited States
Comedy
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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
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91:26
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Synopsis

A wife tries to improve her husband's tastes while overlooking his wish for a less regulated life. His attraction to a shop assistant ends the marriage, prompting the former wife to reinvent her appearance and habits. When the three meet again at a resort, the promises of the new marriage begin to resemble the frustrations of the old one.

Cast

DirectorsCecil B. DeMille

Historical context

Cecil B. DeMille uses fashionable clothes, leisure and conspicuous consumption to stage a comedy about marital expectations. Gloria Swanson's transformation makes changing appearance an active part of the romantic contest.

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